You should do the following to observe a high speed moving object with a rotating camera. The observer - a camera - is located in the <0, 0, z> point in the K coordinate system and is directed towards the center of the object. The object moves with velocity v, along the x axis. K’ is the coordinate system fixed to the object. Synchronize the clocks (t = t’ = 0) when the origin of K coordinate system coincide with origin of K'. The camera make snapshots, so simultaneous points appear in the photo. The points of the object will be transformed according to the Lorentz transformation:
 

The objects seem to rotate, but we do not feel the translation, because there is not background. There is an other program, where we translate the snapshots while playing the animation.

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